We’ve rounded up 15 unique Chinese New Year crafts! Learning about how world cultures celebrate is an easy way to introduce different perspectives to kids. If you’re planning a multicultural art lesson, plan it around major holidays and teach a bit of culture. Scroll through these gorgeous pictures, and click on the links or pictures to see the instructions of these fabulous Chinese New Year crafts.
Red Ted Art: Paper Chinese Dragon (free printable!)
Creative Family Fun: Red Lanterns and Straw Painting
Red Ted Art: Lantern Fairy Lights
Kid World Citizen: Preschool Collective Mural of Quince Blossoms
De Tout Et De Rien: Chinese Firecracker (in French)
Marie’s Pastiche: Chinese New Year’s Lanterns
Kid World Citizen: Chinese Zodiac Poster
Peakle Pie: Paper Plate Dragon
Nurture Store: Egg Carton Dragon
InCulture Parent: Round Lantern
Kid World Citizen: Chinese Dough Figurines
De Tour Et De Rien: Fire Breathing Dragon (in French and English)
Red Ted Art: Toilet Paper Roll Lanterns
Kid World Citizen: Chinese Gong
Which of the Chinese New Year crafts did you like the best? Did you make any of these or other crafts to celebrate Lunar New Year? Tell us about it or share on our facebook page. Xin nian kuai le!
Chinese New Year Math and Literacy! Check out all of our Lunar New Year Resources.
Available at the Kid World Citizen Teachers Pay Teachers Store, these units are an incredible collection of Common Core aligned reading, writing, math, and critical thinking activities, as well as craftivities and coloring sheets. Kids have fun doing word problems, scrambles, graphing, a maze- and they learn about Chinese culture. Go now! >
We’ve done 3 CNY crafts so far this year: super cute wooden peg people, Good Fortune signs, and chopstick holders. We’ll probably do lanterns and TP tube “firecrackers” in the next couple weeks.
Oooh, I really want to see the wooden peg people!! Do you have a link??
Thank you for featuring our Chinese New Year crafts! Kung Hey Fat Choy for next week!
Wow! So many excellent craft ideas! We’ll try some of these. Thank you for including our Fire-breathing dragon 🙂
Have an excellent one! 🙂
What a fabulous lineup of crafts for Chinese New Year! Tweeting and pinning!
What a great round up! Thanks for including our lanterns 🙂
Thanks so much for including my balloon lantern. What an awesome round up. Will share it!
We are making a Chinese Gong after seeing a turkey dish in the £ ($) store! We LOVE this round up 🙂
What a great collection of fun ideas and creations! We did many of them. This year we also work on the paper cutting and paper folding. Now we have more to try. Love this post!
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We Love Bilingualism (Part One):
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National Library Board in Singapore is also widely promoting bilingual learning this month via their website too!
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/music/page/welovebilingualism